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We bring people together to create a new politics.

The fourth industrial revolution is fundamentally reshaping the way we live, work, and play.
Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, mobile technologies, the Internet of Things, mixed reality, and cyber-physical systems are all changing our homes, economies, and societies.
We are a non-partisan and independent global community of people working together to create a new politics in the context of this fourth industrial revolution.

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LISTEN * LEARN * CREATE * SOLVE * ACT * UNITE Introduction Digital technologies are transforming the way we live, work, and play. Businesses are responding by innovating new products and services, and governments are responding by investing in the digital economy and developing new laws and regulation. How are citizens responding? How should citizens Read more about Global inquiry into citizens in the digital age #UnitedCitizens[…]

OVERVIEW Since The Fourth Group was established, our mission has been to understand the impact of the fourth industrial revolution on global society and to develop solutions in response to new pressing challenges. As part of that work, we have run workshops, seminars, lectures, hackathons, to develop new ideas, concepts, policies, forms of civic action, Read more about Innovation, leadership, and policy services[…]

On 13 February, The Fourth Group co-organised an introductory workshop on political action in the digital age with the award-winning charity Shout Out UK. We were joined by youth workers, computer scientists, entrepreneurs, public affairs professionals, students, trade unionists, technologists, and political actors who worked together to developed campaign ideas. Chris Riklin, NationBuilder’s EMEA Director, Read more about Political action in the digital age[…]

Here are some of this year’s highlights for The Fourth Group: Our community grew, with hundreds more people joining online. We also started new hubs in Paris, Berlin, and Bogota. Our team hosted and participated in events in London, Boston, Lisbon, Prague, Regensburg, Strasbourg, and Vancouver. We worked together to create a vision for a Read more about Annual Review 2017[…]

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is completely shifting the way we live, work, and play. Exponential advances in technologies are disrupting economic and societal norms, and political actors are either rushing to respond to major challenges, or, at worst, not acting. To ensure that the Fourth Industrial Revolution leads to progress for all of humanity, we Read more about The rise of the political entrepreneur and why we need more of them[…]

Here’s our brand new brochure which gives an overview of The Fourth Group. Feel free to share with friends and colleagues! The Fourth Group – A New Politics for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (brochure)

Here’s a short list of books that members of The Fourth Group community are reading over the holiday season. Care about politics and technology, and the future of global society? These will get your thinking-caps on whilst you sip on warm drinks this Christmas: Big Mind: How Collective Intelligence Can Change Our World, by Geoff Read more about Here’s what The Fourth Group is reading this holiday season[…]

The Future of Politics Summit is The Fourth Group’s first global gathering to discuss the future of politics worldwide, in the context of the fourth industrial revolution. We’ll specifically cover the intersection between politics and technology, and hear from thought-leaders and practitioners. Our aim is to understand the major political challenges and opportunities caused by the Read more about The Future Of Politics | Inaugural Annual Summit[…]

In the summer of 2017, The Fourth Group community hosted a Politician AI Hackathon. Participants built products to automate tasks politicians do. The winning team developed a chatbot called Civic Triage which points citizens to public services which can help address social problems. Panel discussion At the start of the weekend, we held a panel Read more about Hackers build technology to automate politicians[…]